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Get Hold of Your Elf!

"Get hold of your 'elf!"

Your weekly collection of marketing tips, hints, and advice interspersed with humor, inspiration, and other goodies to spice things up a bit. Guidance, tutoring, advice, mentoring, coaching, inspiration, English lessons, editing, proofreading services for entrepreneurs and online marketers.

Publisher: Mary Wilkey
Volume 2 - Issue 36X - December 5, 2002
Regular issue published every Tuesday

Welcome all subscribers, new and "old"! To all of the many new subscribers, I wish to point out that this is an EXTRA edition of 'elf Expressions Ezine. The regular issue, which goes out every Tuesday, contains a lot fewer ads than the extras, which are published to accommodate the many ads that are submitted.

In Remembrance of
September 11, 2001

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CONTENTS:
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Guest Article
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Today’s Chuckle
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Internet Tips & Hints
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Guest Article
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Inspiration
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EVERY WOMAN SHOULD BE FURIOUS!

As promised, I've temporarily suspended publishing personal testimonies in this slot to include a few excerpts from the amazing book that started it all, "Lessons From the Miracle Doctors," by Jon Barron.
"One day you notice minor symptoms such as a sudden gain in weight or a disruption in sleep patterns or a decreased sex drive. You go for a check-up and receive a prescription for estrogen. As instructed, you take your daily dose of horse urine, but the symptoms get steadily worse. You're told to increase your dosage. Which you do. But the symptoms continue to get worse, and over time become alarming, since they now include problems such as irregular cycles, heavy clotting, or excessive bleeding. An examination of your uterus reveals significant abnormality. You are told your uterus is pre-cancerous. Your hysterectomy is scheduled; your uterus is removed.
"This is absolutely and totally unacceptable. Every woman should be furious!
"The only natural balancer to excessive estrogen in the body is natural progesterone—not more estrogen. This has been clearly detailed in books such as "What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause," by Dr. John R. Lee. Natural progesterone is the only known substance that mitigates virtually all of the problems associated with estrogen dominance, and with virtually no side effects of its own."
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GUEST ARTICLE

7 REASONS YOU SHOULD BE WRITING ARTICLES
by David McKenzie

You have probably heard that writing articles is a very successful internet marketing technique. But why is this so?
Here are 7 reasons why writing articles really works:
1—Writing articles is free marketing. You write your article and post it to a number of article resource sites. Then, ezine owners pick up your article and feature it in their ezine. All of this costs you nothing, and you get free marketing.
2—The more articles you write, the more you become an expert in your field. Experts get featured a lot more widely.
3—By having lots of articles on lots of websites around the world, you automatically rank above average on search engines because of your link popularity. All those links in the resource box back to your site can make a big difference in search engine ranking.
4—Writing articles can mean repeat business. In one ezine I have had about 8 of my articles published over the last couple of years. As the subscribers of this ezine have become more familiar with my business, they are more inclined to buy from me again and again.
5—You could get yourself featured in a LARGE subscriber ezine. I have had a 500,000 subscriber ezine feature a couple of my articles, and it increased my traffic by over 65% in the few days after the articles were published.
6—As most ezine publishers do not write their own articles, they are always looking for other peoples' articles. If you write articles, you can get yourself featured in dozens of ezines.
7—You could get published in a book. Just last week a popular book featured one of my articles. Now that is the ultimate in free publicity!
Writing articles really works. I have written dozens of articles, and it is my most successful marketing technique. It costs nothing and can increase your traffic and sales tremendously.

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but it takes a whole box to start a campfire?

A BIBLE RIDDLE

Who once met the Lord at an inn and was almost killed by the Almighty?
ANSWER—Moses. See Exodus 4:24-26.

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"When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil, while fretting and fuming only serves to increase your own torments."
—Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826, 3rd U.S. President

TODAY'S CHUCKLE

Did you hear about the teacher who was helping one of her kindergarten students put on his boots?

He asked for help, and she could see why. With her pulling and him pushing, the boots still didn't want to go on. When the second boot was on, she had worked up a sweat. She almost whimpered when the little boy said, "Teacher, they're on the wrong feet." She looked and sure enough, they were.
It wasn't any easier pulling the boots off than it was putting them on. She managed to keep her cool as together they worked to get the boots back on—this time on the right feet. He then announced, "These aren't my boots." She bit her tongue rather than get right in his face and scream, "Why didn't you say so?" like she wanted to.
Once again she struggled to help him pull the ill-fitting boots off. He then said, "They're my brother's boots. My Mom made me wear them today."
She didn't know if she should laugh or cry. She mustered up the grace and courage she had left to wrestle the boots onto his feet again. She said, "Now, where are your mittens?" He said, "I stuffed them in the toes of my boots . . ."
Her trial starts next week.

I speak as a man of the world to men of the world; and I say to you, "Search the Scriptures!" The Bible is the book of all others, to be read at all ages, and in all conditions of human life; not to be read in small portions of one or two chapters every day, and never to be intermitted, unless by some overruling necessity.

—John Quincy Adams

"This is the Book. I have read the Bible through many times, and now make it a practice to read it through once every year. It is a book of all others for lawyers, as well as divines; and I pity the man who cannot find in it a rich supply of thought and of rules for conduct. It fits man for life—it prepares him for death."
—Daniel Webster

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A coward gets scared and quits.
A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
—--Anonymous

"For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, because it is consecrated by the Word of God and prayer. If you point these things out to the brothers, you will be a good minister of Christ Jesus, brought up in the truths of the faith and of the good teaching that you have followed."

—The Bible, I Timothy 4:4-6 (NIV)

GUEST ARTICLE

A teacher in New York decided to honor each of her seniors in high school by telling them the difference they each made. She called each student to the front of the class, one at a time. First she told each of them how they had made a difference to her and the class. Then she presented each of them with a blue ribbon imprinted with gold letters, which read, "Who I Am Makes a Difference."
Afterwards the teacher decided to do a class project to see what kind of impact recognition would have on a community. She gave each of the students three more ribbons and instructed them to go out and spread this acknowledgment ceremony. Then they were to follow up on the results, see who honored whom, and report back to the class in about a week.
One of the boys in the class went to a junior executive in a nearby company and honored him for helping him with his career planning. He gave him a blue ribbon and put it on his shirt. Then he gave him two extra ribbons and said, "We're doing a class project on recognition, and we'd like you to go out, find somebody to honor, give them a blue ribbon, then give them the extra blue ribbon so they can acknowledge a third person to keep this acknowledgment ceremony going. Then please report back to me and tell me what happened.
Later that day the junior executive went in to see his boss, who had been noted, by the way, as being kind of a grouchy fellow. He sat his boss down and he told him that he deeply admired him for being a creative genius. The boss seemed very surprised.
The junior executive asked him if he would accept the gift of the blue ribbon and would he give him permission to put it on him. His surprised boss said, "Well, sure." The junior executive took the blue ribbon and placed it right on his boss's jacket above his heart. As he gave him the last extra ribbon, he said, "Would you do me a favor? Would you take this extra one and pass it on by honoring somebody else. The young boy who first gave me the ribbons is doing a project in school, and we want to keep this recognition ceremony going and find out how it affects people."
That night the boss came home to his 14-year-old son and sat him down. He said, "The most incredible thing happened to me today. I was in my office and one of the junior executives came in and told me he admired me and gave me a blue ribbon for being a creative genius. Imagine. He thinks I'm a creative genius. Then he put this blue ribbon that says "Who I Am Makes a Difference" on my jacket above my heart. He gave me an extra ribbon and asked me to find somebody else to honor.
As I was driving home tonight, I started thinking about whom I would honor with this ribbon, and I thought about you. I want to honor you. My days are really hectic and when I come home I don't pay a lot of attention to you. Sometimes I scream at you for not getting good enough grades in school and for your bedroom being a mess, but somehow tonight, I just wanted to sit here and, well, just let you know that you do make a difference to me. Besides your mother, you are the most important person in my life. You're a great kid, and I love you!"
The startled boy started to sob and sob, and he wouldn't stop crying. His whole body shook. He looked up at his father and said through his tears, "Dad, earlier tonight I sat in my room and wrote a letter to you and Mom explaining why I had killed myself and asking you to forgive me. I was going to commit suicide tonight after you were asleep. I just didn't think that you cared at all. The letter is upstairs. I don't think I need it after all."
His father walked upstairs and found a heartfelt letter full of anguish and pain. The envelope was addressed, "Mom and Dad."
The boss went back to work a changed man. He was no longer a grouch but made sure to let all his employees know that they made a difference. The junior executive helped several other young people with career planning and never forgot to let them know that they made a difference in his life . . . one being the boss's son. And the young boy and his classmates learned a valuable lesson.

Who you are DOES make a difference.

—Source unknown

INSPIRATION

Two friends were walking through the desert.
They became involved in an argument that concerned nothing in particular. Eventually one of them slapped the other in the face.
The one who was slapped was hurt deeply. He stopped, bent down and wrote in the sand, "Today my best friend slapped me."
They continued on to an oasis where they had their fill and began to rest.
The friend who had been slapped became stuck in quick sand and mud which soon began to suck him down.
His friend ran over, lay down on his belly, reached out, grabbed his friend and pulled him to safety.
The rescued friend then began to chisel on a nearby rock,
"Today my best friend saved my life."
Dumbfounded, his friend asked him,
"When I slapped you, you wrote in the sand. When I saved you, you chiseled on this rock. What foolishness is this?"
His friend replied,
"When we hurt each other we should write it down in the sand, so the winds of forgiveness can make it go away for good.
When we help each other we should chisel it in stone, lest we never forget the love of a friend."
Take care of each other.
—Courtesy of Christian Godefrey, of The Positive Club
Bio and photo: http://www.club-positif.com/e-chg.html

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